17 Facts About Amit Segal

Amit Segal is an Israeli journalist, radio and television personality.

Amit Segal serves as the political commentator of Israel's Channel 12 news and a political columnist for the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.

Amit Segal is regarded as one of the most influential journalists in Israel.

Amit Segal is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and holds a master's degree from University College London in public policy.

Amit Segal is a doctoral student in political science at the Hebrew University.

Amit Segal began his journalistic career at the age of 17 as an education reporter at the Kol Ha'ir local newspaper.

From November 16,2017, Amit Segal serves as a substitute presenter in the program Shesh im.

Amit Segal is extremely active on social media, especially X formerly Twitter.

In December 2014 Amit Segal revealed tapes from 2008 in which Shas leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was seen harshly attacking party chairman Aryeh Deri.

In March 2019 Amit Segal published that Iran had hacked into the cell phone of Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz and extracted its contents, and that the Shin Bet had informed Gantz about the matter in a secret meeting during the election campaign.

On May 30,2019, on the eve of the dissolution of the 21st Knesset, Amit Segal revealed that Israeli Labor Party leader Avi Gabai and Tal Russo intended to join the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.

In March 2025, amid the collapse of the hostage deal and ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, Amit Segal announced that the Israeli government was planning on threatening Hamas that if any of the Israeli hostages are harmed, then Israel would permanently occupy, assert sovereignty to, and annex parts of the Gaza Strip.

In July 2021 Amit Segal began pre-selling his first book, The Story of Israeli Politics, which was self-published.

Amit Segal's book was illustrated by the chief cartoonist for Haaretz, Amos Biderman.

Amit Segal is married to Reut and is the father of two sons and one daughter.

Amit Segal's father is Hagai Segal and his brother is the journalist and activist Arnon Segal.

Amit Segal said that he has "post-traumatic stress from religiosity", resulting from his years in the strict high school Yeshiva institution Nativ Meir.